Buck patterns

[JAY B]

Thought I would share an interesting experience. Anyone else had this happen ? Last year on Nov. 10th at 515 pm I missed (shot under at 190 yards) a buck I had been hunting and only had a couple daylight pics of and both were right at first light . Fast forward to this year , a couple of first light daytime pics of him is it as far as daylight . Well on evening of Nov 10th I decide might as well hunt exact spot and maybe just maybe he daylights a year to the day. 5:05 pm shot him from same spot he was just a tad closer to creek (210 yards ). Wild to me that a year to
The day he makes the exact same daylight walk !

 

[Volbuck777]

I killed my 12 last year on the exact day and within 30 minutes of where he stood the year before. This year I got pics of a deer I've not seen since last year. Wouldn't you know it he showed up the same day at the same spot. Deer are patterned animals even a year later.

 

[cbhunter]

Thought I would share an interesting experience. Anyone else had this happen ? Last year on Nov. 10th at 515 pm I missed (shot under at 190 yards) a buck I had been hunting and only had a couple daylight pics of and both were right at first light . Fast forward to this year , a couple of first light daytime pics of him is it as far as daylight . Well on evening of Nov 10th I decide might as well hunt exact spot and maybe just maybe he daylights a year to the day. 5:05 pm shot him from same spot he was just a tad closer to creek (210 yards ). Wild to me that a year to
The day he makes the exact same daylight walk !

Well you always kill above average deer so first off….congrats!! Second, this is useless without pics

 

[Snake]

I've never been fortunate enough to kill a buck I missed the previous year but have got second chances on bucks before .

 

[Snake]

Well you always kill above average deer so first off….congrats!! Second, this is useless without pics

You can bet it's a good one !

 

[Urban_Hunter]

Pics or I don't believe you

 

[Ski]

Same time same place theory. I think Don Higgins was the first to point out the phenomenon. I've seen it enough that it can't be coincidence.

 

[270MONTS]

This is great info and something I have never noticed before. Definitely makes me want to start logging info.

 

[Crappieaddict]

Very interesting.

 

[deerhunter10]

Never missed one and killed it the same day a year or 2 later. But I have seen same deer same day or day before or after several times through the year.

 

[tree_ghost]

very real phenomena especially for bucks that tend to be "unpaternable"

 

[East TN Bowhunter]

Thought I would share an interesting experience. Anyone else had this happen ? Last year on Nov. 10th at 515 pm I missed (shot under at 190 yards) a buck I had been hunting and only had a couple daylight pics of and both were right at first light . Fast forward to this year , a couple of first light daytime pics of him is it as far as daylight . Well on evening of Nov 10th I decide might as well hunt exact spot and maybe just maybe he daylights a year to the day. 5:05 pm shot him from same spot he was just a tad closer to creek (210 yards ). Wild to me that a year to
The day he makes the exact same daylight walk !

I have had similar results hunting the exact same tree 3 years in a row within 5 days each year like clockwork they come thru. Killed a nice old 7 point dawging does on November 15th 2 years ago, last year on November 11th killed a big 9 point cruising and had a doe 50yards behind me that he came directly to and killed him and then this year had 2 8 points come thru cruising/looking for a hot doe on Saturday and Sunday the 16th and 17th. The bigger 8, which I have never got pics of, couldn't get a shot on. He stayed 60-70yards away and walked away from me and I only bow hunt so no shot. Hoping this cold front tomorrow and Friday get them moving again. I may do an all day sit Friday and Saturday. They are saying we may even get a little snow Friday morning and in combo with a NW wind, should be a great day to be in the woods.

 

[Ski]

very real phenomena especially for bucks that tend to be "unpaternable"

Absolutely real. Uncanny really. I've given a lot of thought to why. The best I can figure is that it corresponds with a particular doe estrus cycle because they pop hot almost exactly to the day from year to year. It can't be a coincidence. Basically if he was here today and there was a hot doe, then his best chance next year is to be here again same day. I might be way off on that thinking but it's the only logic I've found that applies. Regardless the phenomenon is real. The reason why is what keeps me figuring.

 

[tellico4x4]

I believe they are like big fish, they frequent an area for a reason. Structure (topography), current (wind), food, safety, etc. Take a big fish off a certain stump & you stand a good chance of catching another one there later on, same with mature deer. They usually don't accidentally just show up there. However, that can change with rut (spawn).

 

[BSK]

Absolutely real. Uncanny really. I've given a lot of thought to why. The best I can figure is that it corresponds with a particular doe estrus cycle because they pop hot almost exactly to the day from year to year. It can't be a coincidence. Basically if he was here today and there was a hot doe, then his best chance next year is to be here again same day. I might be way off on that thinking but it's the only logic I've found that applies. Regardless the phenomenon is real. The reason why is what keeps me figuring.

Agree completely. In a "normal" acorn year (at least some acorns), I can predict within a day which stands on my property will be "hot." I've got years of data showing particular locations are great on almost exactly the same day every year.

 

[BSK]

I believe they are like big fish, they frequent an area for a reason. Structure (topography), current (wind), food, safety, etc. Take a big fish off a certain stump & you stand a good chance of catching another one there later on, same with mature deer. They usually don't accidentally just show up there. However, that can change with rut (spawn).

Also agree. I like the "structure" analogy.

 

[Ski]

I believe they are like big fish, they frequent an area for a reason. Structure (topography), current (wind), food, safety, etc. Take a big fish off a certain stump & you stand a good chance of catching another one there later on, same with mature deer. They usually don't accidentally just show up there. However, that can change with rut (spawn).

That's pretty accurate. I've got one spot where October 30th produces extremely consistently, to the tune of 3 of 5 years. Different mature bucks each time but the location and day repeat more than half the time. I could sit there all year and only see deer a handful of times but on October 30th I've got a legit better than even odds of killing a mature buck.

 

[.243 Deer]

I killed a huge 6 pointer last year when he popped out of the treeline a year to the day on November 25th. I saw him the year before at the exact same time but could never get a shot off on him.

 

[TDW05]

Yep, got one on the wall like that. Year before was with a doe and couldn't get a shot. The next year same spot around same time he was cruising and I grunted him.

 

[Remi]

Thought I would share an interesting experience. Anyone else had this happen ? Last year on Nov. 10th at 515 pm I missed (shot under at 190 yards) a buck I had been hunting and only had a couple daylight pics of and both were right at first light . Fast forward to this year , a couple of first light daytime pics of him is it as far as daylight . Well on evening of Nov 10th I decide might as well hunt exact spot and maybe just maybe he daylights a year to the day. 5:05 pm shot him from same spot he was just a tad closer to creek (210 yards ). Wild to me that a year to
The day he makes the exact same daylight walk !

https://www.northamericanwhitetail....patterning-tagging-mature-bucks/262622#replay

 

[ZachMarkus]

Seen it time and time again from 10+ years of using trail cams, deer showing up in a location the same day or within a few days of the previous year.

 

[Dumbluck]

I haven't noticed them to the day but i have noticed them to a given time frame. I killed a deer last week that for the last 3 years I've kept up with him he showed at the first week or so of November, he would hang around for a very short time before vanishing again. I notice those types of patterns yearly with certain deer. It's kind of rare that I have one that's just a homebody and he stays on the hunting land but it does occasionally happen.

 

[Bgoodman30]

What's crazy is I have seen different mature deer do the exact same thing and walk the same trail on the same day in consecutive years.

 

[BSK]

I haven't noticed them to the day but i have noticed them to a given time frame. I killed a deer last week that for the last 3 years I've kept up with him he showed at the first week or so of November, he would hang around for a very short time before vanishing again. I notice those types of patterns yearly with certain deer. It's kind of rare that I have one that's just a homebody and he stays on the hunting land but it does occasionally happen.

Back in the early 2000s, I had the same buck first appear on cam on my place on the same date three years in a row - Halloween. He would stick around for the rut and then vanish, not to be seen again until the next Halloween. This is how I got started theorizing on annual "rut ranges" that are different than a buck's normal fall range. Later GPS collar studies proved this to be true.

 

[Novocaine]

Similar story. In 2009 I was a new member at a club outside of Hohenwald. Opening morning in one of the hollows I had a nice young 11 point come by my stand 3-4 time chasing all morning. He was 16" wide with pencil horns grunting every step. I passed him up. Next season on opening morning he was killed within 200 yds of that spot and was considerably bigger.

 

[JAY B]

Well you always kill above average deer so first off….congrats!! Second, this is useless without pics

 

[Snake]

Nice buck Jason , congratulations brother !

 

[cbhunter]

Nice un' congrats!

 

[JAY B]

Nice buck Jason , congratulations brother !

Thanks Steve, this guy is a tad bit smaller than last year, according to trail cameras he suffered a high shoulder injury in late nov and by late Dec was really looking bad. I really questioned whether he would survive . And he is actually about 13-14" smaller than he was before halloween. he broke off both brow tines as well as a nice 6" sticker forward off his base at some point between Oct. 28th and the day I killed him. This video is before he was broke up .